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ORED Communicator - March 2015Office of Research and Economic Development, Florida International University
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ORED Communicator
Collaborating with your Tech Transfer Office By Elizabeth Garami
March 2015 Issue
Awards January 2015 (page 2)
Upcoming Events (page 2)
Limited Submissions (page 8)
Funding Opportunities (attached as an
Excel file)
On February 11, the Technology Man-agement and Commercialization (TMC) unit within ORED hosted a presenta-tion on “How to Collaborate with your Tech-nology Transfer Office to Disclose your Idea to Maximize its Future Patent Protection.”
Jeremy Protas and David Read, intellec-tual property attorneys and partners at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP, shared information on the different types of intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. The presentation focused on patents as a means to protect tech-nology. The speakers provided faculty and students with their perspectives and tips on preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications. The presentation emphasized the role of the inventor as the technical expert in defining and de-scribing the invention as well as prepar-ing technical arguments to present to the patent office(s) during patent prose-cution.
The session was well attended, with rep-resentatives from chemistry, biology, engineering, hospitality, medicine, and nursing. A Q&A session followed the presentation. Most questions from the audience centered on the type and scope of documentation that is needed for a patent application and the submission timing of the technology disclosure.
Participants also shared their experiences and suggestions. Their suggestions includ-ed: 1) contact TMC for intellectual proper-ty protection guidance prior to non-FIU presentations that feature technology that
may have commercial potential; 2) execute confidentiality agreements before discuss-ing technology with a potential third party partner; 3) be aware that online publication of conference abstracts, theses, and scien-tific manuscripts that precede paper publi-cations may affect patent filing; 4) thor-oughly complete FIU’s intellectual proper-ty disclosure form and submit manu-scripts, slide presentations, and other doc-umentation to ensure that the invention is described in sufficient detail, and 5) realize that patent filing and prosecution is a col-laborative effort among the inventors, TMC and the outside patent attorneys.
If your FIU laboratory developed a tech-nology, or your are considering publishing or presenting this information for audienc-es outside of FIU, please submit an Intel-lectual Property Disclosure Form or con-tact the TMC unit at 305-348-2494.
Page 2 ORED Communicator March 2015
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
Upcoming Events March 2015 March 2, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, AHC4 #402, “Implications of Latino Aging for Medical Care and Social Service
Delivery Systems” presented by William Vega. Co-sponsored by the Faculty Mentor Program and the Office of
Research and Economic Development. Specific details are available at http://mentor.fiu.edu.
March 4, 8:30 to 11 am, MARC Pavilion, “The Jessica Effect: Applying Cultural Knowledge and Competency
to Mentoring Approaches for Minority Students” presented by Renetta G. Tull. Please RSVP at
https://fiu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eURs2kkCXM2221L
March 6, 11 am to 12:00 pm, PG5, Room 155. Dr. Chia-Ching Chang, from National Chiao Tung University
in Taiwan, will host a lecture. Co-sponsored by the Biomolecular Sciences Institute and the Chemistry
Departmental Series. Hosted by Dr. Fenfei Leng.
March 6, 3 to 4 pm, EC #2300, “Numerical Modeling of the Effect of Hydrologic Conditions and Sediment
Transport of Geomorphic Patterns in Wetlands,” presented by Mernoosh Mahmoudi, part of ARC’s Lecture
Series.
March 17-18, 10 am to 4 pm, GC Ballrooms, FIU Undergraduate Research Conference open to all
undergraduate students, features academic posters, oral presentations, workshops and rountables.
March 20, 11 am to 12 pm, EC 1105, “Engineering Expo” presented by Juan Carlos Balda from the
University of Arkansas.
March 26-27, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, MARC Pavilion, “17th Annual Biomedical and Comparative Immunology
(BCI) Symposium)”. Abstract Submission Deadline: February 13th - for required abstract components and
guidelines, click here to submit. Online (Early Bird) Pre-Registration Deadline: March 13th - register now on
Eventbrite.
March 27, 11 am to 12 pm, EC 1105, “ECE Seminar Series” presented by Scott Smith from North Dakota
State University.
March 30, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, AHC4 #402, “Informatics Workshop” with Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh and Giri
Narasimhan. Co-sponsored by the Faculty Mentor Program and the Office of Research and Economic
Development. Specific details will be forthcoming for this workshop and available at http://mentor.fiu.edu.
April 2015
April 2, 12 to 1 pm, AHC5 # 300, “Impact of Estrogenic Chemicals on the Growth of Microvascular Lesions
and its Implications in Vascular Disease,” presented by Quentin Felty.
April 10, 11 am to 12 pm, EC 1105, “ECE Seminar Series” presented by Spyros Tragoudas, from Southern
Illinois University.
April 10, 2 to 3 pm, ECS #241, “The Human Side of Computing” presented by Vicki Hanson, part of the
School of Computing and Information Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series.
April 16, 10 to 11 am, WC #130, “The Biology of Aging: Targets, Biomarkers and Interventions,” presented
by Christiaan Leeuwenburgh
April 17, 2 to 3 pm, PG5 #134, “Mathematical Engineering: Origins and Impact” presented by Thomas
Kailath, part of the School of Computing and Information Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series.
Awards Received—January 2015 FIU researchers were awarded $6,278,673 in January 2015. Below is a listing of awards received.
PI: Omar I Abdul Aziz
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: CAREER: Robust Modeling and Predictions of Stream Water Quality AWARD: $ 500,000
March 2015 ORED Communicator Page 3
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Arvind Agarwal
MECHANICAL AND MAT ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: Clarkson Aerospace Corp
TITLE: AFRL Collaboration Program - Materials and Manufacturing Research AWARD: $ 30,000
PI: Benjamin C Amick III
HEALTH POLICY AND MGMT
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: Univ of Texas Health Science Ctr Houston
TITLE: Services Agreement - New Year New You AWARD: $ 47,942
PI: Mahadev G Bhat
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Miami
TITLE: Pulley Ridge Fisheries Bio-economic Modeling Project AWARD: $ 68,552
PI: Heather Denise Bracken-Grissom
BIOLOGY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Nova Southeastern University
TITLE: Bioluminescence and Vision in the Deep-sea Benthos II AWARD: $ 25,706
PI: Heather Denise Bracken-Grissom
BIOLOGY
Award Action Type: Pre-Award
AWARDING SPONSOR: Nova Southeastern University
TITLE: DEEPEND: Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico AWARD: $ 35,818
PI: Henry O Briceno
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 65,216
PI: Henry O Briceno
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: CH2M Hill
TITLE: Design and implementation of dye-tracer injection test, Cudjoe Key AWARD: $ 125,602
PI: Fabian Cevallos
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Avail Technologies Inc
TITLE: Technical Assistance to Avail with Uploading VOTRAN Stop AWARD: $ 5,000
PI: Jonathan S Comer
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAM
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institute of Mental Health
TITLE: Evaluating the Feasibility of Internet-Delivered Parent-Child AWARD: $ 160,210
Page 4 ORED Communicator March 2015
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Evelyn E Gaiser
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 102,733
PI: Evelyn E Gaiser
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 16,000
PI: Cheng-Tin Gan
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Department of Transportation
TITLE: ITS research, computer, and miscellaneous support AWARD: $ 150,000
PI: Stavros Georgakopoulos
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: U.S. Army
TITLE: Antennas and Electromagnetics Instrumentation for Research and Education AWARD: $ 498,085
PI: Lei Guo
PHYSICS
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Jefferson Lab
TITLE: Hadron Spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab: Hadron Spectroscopy at Jeffers AWARD: $ 5,970
PI: Lei Guo
PHYSICS
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Jefferson Lab
TITLE: Subproject: Hadron Spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab: Hadron Spectroscopy AWARD: $ 5,000
PI: Jin He
PHYSICS
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: CAREER: Investigate 3D extracellular potential distribution AWARD: $ 500,234
PI: Michael R Heithaus
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 68,141
PI: Rudolf Jaffe
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 72,892
March 2015 ORED Communicator Page 5
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: John Stephen Kominoski
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 70,356
PI: Leonel E Lagos
ARC APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: Jacobs Engineering Group
TITLE: Services pertaining development of program for Windamir Development AWARD: $ 8,267
PI: Valentina Bruk Lee
PSYCHOLOGY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of South Florida
TITLE: Validating the Safety Silence Scale AWARD: $ 4,320
PI: Yuan Liu
CHEMISTRY
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Trinucleotide Repeat Instability via DNA Damage and Repair AWARD: $ 32,005
PI: Debra Lundy
SCH OF HOSP AND TOURISM MGMT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs
TITLE: 2015 FEST South Beach Wine and Food Festival AWARD: $ 77,481
PI: Debra Lundy
SCH OF HOSP AND TOURISM MGMT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami Beach Visitor & Convention Authori
TITLE: 2015 South Beach Wine & Food Festival AWARD: $ 50,000
PI: Amelia Maguire
COB DEANS OFFICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of West Florida
TITLE: FSBDC at FIU AWARD: $ 115,751
PI: Amir Mirmiran
ENGINEERING DEANS OFFICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Infrastructure Innovation LLC
TITLE: NCHRP12-101: Seismic Design of Bridge Columns with Improved AWARD: $ 5,375
PI: Joongho Moon
CHEMISTRY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Korea Evaluation Inst of Industrial Tech
TITLE: Development of 35% lightweight CCB module for automotives AWARD: $ 45,788
Page 6 ORED Communicator March 2015
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Maria Olenick
NURSING FEP BBC
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
TITLE: VA Nursing Academic Partnership Program (VANAP) AWARD: $ 280,645
PI: Richard Olson
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Emergency Management
TITLE: Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida FY 14-15 AWARD: $ 439,041
PI: Richard Olson
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Emergency Management
TITLE: Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida FY 14-15 AWARD: $ 260,959
PI: William E Pelham Jr
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAM
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Examining Tolerance to CNS Stimulants in ADHD AWARD: $ 652,494
PI: Jeremy W Pettit
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAM
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Attention Bias Modification Training in Child Anxiety CBT Non-responders AWARD: $ 205,789
PI: Rene M Price
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 58,618
PI: Jennifer Schopf Rehage
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: South Florida Water Management District
TITLE: Habitat Selection & Movement of Everglades Fishes AWARD: $ 30,000
PI: Douglas Lee Robertson
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Association of Public & Land-Grant Univ
TITLE: Transformational Planning Grant: University Transformation AWARD: $ 50,000
PI: Cristina Rodriguez Acosta
INST PUB MGMT & COMM SERVICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Port of Miami
TITLE: XXI Inter-American Conference of Mayors and Local Authorities AWARD: $ 50,357
March 2015 ORED Communicator Page 7
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty
BIOLOGY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: RAPID: A hyper-thermal anomaly in the Florida Reef Tract AWARD: $ 177,913
PI: Barry Philip Rosen
COM CELL BIOLOGY AND PHARM
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: The Human Arsenic Methylation Pathway AWARD: $ 322,485
PI: Surendra K Saxena
MECHANICAL AND MAT ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: Iowa State University
TITLE: Sustainable Allow Design: Searching for Rare Earth Element AWARD: $ 100,000
PI: Casey P Steadman
THE WOLFSONIAN
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Humanities Council
TITLE: Myth and Machine: Community, History, and Visual Culture Programs AWARD: $ 5,000
PI: Casey P Steadman
THE WOLFSONIAN
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs
TITLE: Miami Dade County Major Cultural Institutions FY15 Grant AWARD: $ 281,536
PI: Casey P Steadman
THE WOLFSONIAN
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Endowment for the Humanities
TITLE: Hiring a consultant to conduct an environmental assessment AWARD: $ 6,000
PI: John Stuart
ARCHICT AND THE ARTS DEANS OFF
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: City of Miami Beach
TITLE: City of Miami Beach Grant FY 14-15 AWARD: $ 24,966
PI: Tiffany Grace Troxler
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research AWARD: $ 76,529
PI: Tiffany Grace Troxler
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: ICF International
TITLE: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Analyses for Agriculture AWARD: $ 5,440
Page 8 ORED Communicator March 2015
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Yukching Tse Dinh
CHEMISTRY
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Control of DNA Topology AWARD: $ 201,168
PI: Eric Wagner
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Ware Foundation
TITLE: Yoga as a Complement to Standard Care for Adolescents AWARD: $ 35,266
PI: Susan E Webster
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: IREX
TITLE: Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) AWARD: $ 100,000
PI: Ming Zhao
COMPUTER INFO SCIENCES
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Student Travel Support for ACM HPDC 2015 AWARD: $ 15,000
PI: Ioannis Zisis
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Department of Transportation
TITLE: Development of a Test Method for Assessing the Performance AWARD: $ 7,024
Limited Submission Funding Opportunities Below are limited submission opportunities with upcoming internal deadlines:
Agency Program Institutional Submission Limits Internal
Deadline Agency Deadline
NSF
Collections in Support of
Biological Research (CSBR) (NSF 14-564)
Three per organization. In a single round of the CSBR competition, only one proposal may be
submitted from any individual collection within an
organization. One organization may not submit more than three proposals to any one CSBR competition.
05/13/2015 07/13/2015
NIH
Developing and Improving
Institutional Animal
Resources (G20) (PAR-13-219)
One per institution 6/3/2015 8/3/2015
NSF
Improving Undergraduate
STEM Education: Pathways
into Geoscience (NSF 15-526)
One per institution 06/14/2015
Prelim Proposal Deadline:
8/14/2015 Agency Deadline: 10/05/2015
NIH
Institutional Research and
Academic Career
Development Awards
(IRACDA) (K12) (PAR-13-290)
One per institution 7/24/2015 9/24/2015
March 2015 ORED Communicator Page 9
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
Please visit our website at: http://research.fiu.edu/funding/pages/limited-submissions.html to review our monthly
limited submissions or for further instructions on how to prepare and/or submit your limited submission
application.
Funding Opportunities
The funding opportunities are in the attached excel file, which includes a filter for agency, date and opportunity
number.
Page 10 ORED Communicator March 2015
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
Contact ORED Senior Leadership
Name Title Email Address
Andrés G. Gil Vice President for Research [email protected]
Tonja Moore Associate Vice President for Research Strategic Planning &
Operations [email protected]
Luis P. Salas Associate Vice President for Research [email protected]
Mirtha Alberto Director, Budget & Cost Analysis [email protected]
Henry Artigues Director, Research Operations & External Partnerships [email protected]
David Driesbach Assistant Vice President, Research Information Systems [email protected]
Christopher Grayson Director, Research Integrity [email protected]
C. Emily Gresham Assistant Vice President, Innovation& Economic
Development [email protected]
Robert Gutierrez Assistant Vice President and Director, Pre-Award [email protected]
Pedro Hernández Director, Technology Management & Commercialization [email protected]
Maureen Pelham Director, Research Development [email protected]
Aida Reus Director, Post-Award [email protected]
Horatiu Vinerean Director, Laboratory Animal Research; Attending
Veterinarian [email protected]
Susan Webster Director, Training & International Research Initiatives [email protected]
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
11200 SW 8th Street
MARC 430
Miami, FL 33199
http://research.fiu.edu